Every so often I have this urge (maybe more of an itch) to spend hours and hours on the web trying to find information about old, obsolete computers of the past. I am intrigued by the XEROX Alto and Star ('70s-'82), the Apple Lisa ('83) and, of course, CRAYs ('75-ish). These were revolutionary machines indeed, they wrote golden pages in the history of computing. In the end of the 1980s, a new innovative product was ready to ship, created by a bunch of people coming from Apple: The NeXT platform.

We heavily used DigiScript on OpenStep and still use it sometimes if Acrobat Distiller has difficulties to make PDF from PS. With DigiScript you have complete control of PS files which where normally not meant to be modified after making. DigiScript is not that cheap though. I think it was about $10000. But the computer with OpenStep came with it. There was a version for Windows NT too. It was sometimes the only way to make a book of someones PS file...